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SUMMARY:Morning Coffee with the Open Data Week Team ☕ 3.24
DESCRIPTION:Kick off your morning with the Open Data Week Team! \nJoin us online daily at 9:00am to talk about upcoming events\, hear our recommendations\, get a peek behind the scenes\, and say hello to other festival attendees. \nBring your own coffee! \nThe Open Data Week Team is represented by staff from the Open Data Team at the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation and BetaNYC.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/morning-coffee-with-the-open-data-week-team-%e2%98%95-3-24/
LOCATION:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/morning-coffee-with-the-open-data-week-team-%e2%98%95-3-24/
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:Discovering NYC Open Data: An Introductory Class - March 24
DESCRIPTION:Did you know there is free data about nearly every aspect of our city? Come learn how to use it with the NYC Open Data Ambassadors! Join us for an online workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of using NYC Open Data. \nThis training is FREE and OPEN to the public. \nWhat will I learn?\n* What is NYC Open Data\n* History of the NYC Open Data program\n* How to frame questions for working with NYC Open Data\n* Using the NYC Open Data website\, filtering\, and visualizing datasets\n* Useful tools powered by NYC Open Data \nThe Open Data Ambassadors program is a collaboration between NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Open Data Team and BetaNYC. \nRSVP here or visit nyc.gov/discoveropendata to learn more!
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/discovering-nyc-open-data-an-introductory-class-march-24/
LOCATION:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/discovering-nyc-open-data-an-introductory-class-march-24/
CATEGORIES:Intro Class,Workshop or Training
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SUMMARY:How Maps Speak: Mapping Commons Hackathon
DESCRIPTION:A collaborative hackathon to build public mapping resources using NYC Open Data \nHow Maps Speak is a collaborative hackathon run by Parisa Setayesh and Shokran Rahiminezhad\, two PhD candidates at the CUNY Graduate Center\, focused on building a public teaching resource for mapping using NYC Open Data. Rather than centering on a single technical product\, this hackathon brings together participants from diverse disciplines to co-create beginner-friendly mapping tutorials\, examples\, and workflows that show how maps are used to communicate with communities. \nParticipants will contribute and comment on short\, structured materials\, such as annotated mapping examples\, tool-agnostic tutorials\, and community-facing workflows\, using NYC Open Data as a shared reference point. These contributions will form the foundation of Mapping Commons\, an open\, publicly accessible collection of mapping resources designed for non-experts. \nThe hackathon emphasizes collaboration\, reflection\, and public usefulness over competition or speed. No advanced technical or GIS experience is required. Learn more here and register below. \nThis hackathon is designed for an interdisciplinary audience\, including: \n\nStudents and researchers\nUrban planners\, designers\, and architects\nCommunity organizers and advocates\nEducators\, librarians\, and journalists\nData visualization practitioners
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/how-maps-speak-mapping-commons-hackathon/
LOCATION:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/how-maps-speak-mapping-commons-hackathon/
CATEGORIES:Hackathon / Data Jam
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SUMMARY:Querying Big Bus Data off of the Open Data Portal
DESCRIPTION:In this training\, data scientists on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) Data & Analytics team will teach attendees how to query big bus data off of the Socrata-powered open data portals using Socrata Query Language (SoQL). The first half of the session will be done entirely using in-browser tools\, no special software required! \nFor the second half of the session\, we’ll dive deeper into how to join bus route segment speed data to geospatial shapes in order to create map-based visuals. Python experience recommended to those who want to follow along\, though all are welcome to listen in and learn! A URL to a GitHub repository will be added to this event page at a later date.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/querying-big-bus-data-off-of-the-open-data-portal/
LOCATION:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/querying-big-bus-data-off-of-the-open-data-portal/
CATEGORIES:Demonstration
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SUMMARY:Databook Update: Data Supporting Civil Service and Tech Procurement Reform
DESCRIPTION:WeGovNYC’s Databook (databook.nyc) is a data pipeline that indexes\, normalizes\, and republishes over 60 NYC Open Data datasets as a publicly accessible API and into an interface that offers in-depth profiles of City agencies\, public schools\, civil service titles\, contracts and much more. \nOur recent focus is providing tools for people interested in reforming civil service titles and technology procurement. We FOILed for civil service title descriptions\, extracted their data\, integrated it into Databook along with data visualizations at databook.nyc/titles. We also extracted all data from PassportPublic and Checkbook.NYC to create a new section in Databook connecting vendors\, solicitations\, agencies\, vendors and contracts at https://databook.nyc/procurement. \nWe will discuss all our tools as well as how we’ve adopted generative AI (vibe coding) to accelerate our development.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/databook-update-data-supporting-civil-service-and-tech-procurement-reform/
LOCATION:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/databook-update-data-supporting-civil-service-and-tech-procurement-reform/
CATEGORIES:Demonstration
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SUMMARY:DATA2GO.NYC: A Data Tool to Understand Well-Being and Need in NYC
DESCRIPTION:How can we use publicly available data to understand well-being\, need\, and resource gaps in NYC? In this interactive session\, Alex Powers\, Kate Harvey\, and Tara Shawa from Measure of America will demonstrate DATA2GO.NYC\, a free\, easy-to-use online mapping and data tool. This platform aggregates over 400 indicators from federal\, state\, and NYC sources\, allowing users to explore neighborhood-level insights on everything from health and housing to digital equity. Participants will see firsthand how to use change-over-time views and demographic breakdowns to drive informed decision-making and advocacy in their communities. \nThis event is designed for anyone interested in leveraging data for social impact. The session will begin with an introduction and overview of the tool’s capabilities\, followed by an engaging “Data Bingo” competition. This interactive activity provides hands-on experience\, allowing participants to explore the tool in small groups and practice extracting relevant insights in real-time. Whether you are a data novice or a seasoned data deckhand\, you will leave with an enhanced ability to set sail on the vast sea of NYC data and better understand the well-being of New Yorkers.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/data2go-nyc-a-data-tool-to-understand-well-being-and-need-in-nyc-freshly-updated/
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CATEGORIES:Demonstration
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SUMMARY:What's New for Family History
DESCRIPTION:Ken Cobb and Marcia Kirk from the Department of Records and Information Services will present a discussion and demonstration of newly released voter registration records available on Ancestry.com. These records document the period from 1915-1956 and include several important events: women’s right to vote\, both World Wars\, and the Great Depression. \nOpen to researchers and people interested in researching genealogy\, family history\, local history\, voting patterns\, population movement. This is an in-person event at the NYC Department of Records and Information Services\, 31 Chambers Street\, NYC in Room 111.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/whats-new-for-family-history/
LOCATION:NYC Department of Records and Information Services\, 31 Chambers Street Room 111\, New York\, New York\, 10007\, United States of America
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SUMMARY:NYC's Changing Landscape: Discover What's Being Built Around You
DESCRIPTION:We’ve all seen construction sites and scaffolding appear in our neighborhood\, tried to peek through the cracks and wondered: what are they building over there? This presentation will showcase how publicly available NYC Department of Buildings data can be brought together and deployed to give New Yorkers and industry pros alike a birds eye view on what’s rising up in their communities\, all at once and at a glance! \nJoin Bonnie Stefanick\, New Yorker and citizen data scientist\, through a high level overview of how the things that get built show up in permitting data using live demonstrations of data sets that capture the permitting process and a daily view of projects happening in NYC neighborhoods\, while giving a peek under the hood at the data in action from how it is pulled from the open data APIs and brought to life in tools.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/nycs-changing-landscape-discover-whats-being-built-around-you/
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SUMMARY:Echo{logies}\, Data Through Design Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Echo{logies} is the 2026 exhibition of Data Through Design\, an independent collective who organize an annual art exhibition featuring works that creatively analyze\, interpret\, and interrogate data made available on NYC Open Data. \nVisiting the Exhibition\nThe exhibition is open to the public daily from 12pm to 7 pm during Open Data Week. On March 21\, we will host an opening event that requires RSVP. \nWhen: March 21 – April 5\, 2026\, 12:00pm – 7:00pm \nWhere: BRIC\, 647 Fulton Street (at Rockwell Place)\, Brooklyn\, NY 11217 \nOpening Event: Saturday\, March 21\, 6:30 – 8:30 PM; RSVP. \nAbout Echo{logies}\nThe projects in Echo{logies} work with the bodies of knowledge\, or “-logies”\, that reverberate through New York City’s data. They explore ecosystems and cycles of life expressed in data; the rhythms of growth\, decay\, renewal\, and transformation as they “echo” through data\, and the interplay between human and non-human worlds. \nThis year’s theme engages with questions such as: How can the city\, and data itself\, be understood as ecological and cyclical? How might data be materialized\, embodied\, or inscribed by natural processes? What accumulates\, erodes\, regenerates\, lingers as traces\, or resonates as echoes? \nThe work in this exhibition makes data felt\, witnessed\, or transformed—through physicalization\, interaction\, or by exposing how nature itself records and inscribes change. The artworks engage with living systems\, natural or urban ecologies\, or information ecosystems\, and examine materiality and craft\, murmurations and flows\, entropy and genesis\, and the sublime scale of ecological change. \n\nDesire Paths: Becca Ellsworth & Becca Odell\nHartLine: Ian Callender & Karla Rothstein\nLandscape Workshop: Mark Heller & Mariel Collard Arias\nLinger Loiter: Charlotte Gartenberg & Ivan Himanen\nMetropolitan Cuneiform: Jingrong Zhang\nThe Oracle of Gotham: Karissa Whiting & Elizabeth Costa\nTurnstile Murmurations: Trpti Sanghvi\nUrban Data Orchestra: Composing the Hidden Rhythms of the City: Elina Oikonomaki & Lukas Lesina Debiasi\nWaste Rhythms: Living Records of NYC Communities: HaoChe Hung & Tianxing (Vincent) Zhu\nWild Lots: Craig Fahner & al haley\n\nEcho{logies} is organized and curated by the 2026 Data Through Design team: Julia Bloom\, Tereza Chanaki\, Rachel Daniell\, Jack Darcey\, Sara Eichner\, Justin Roberts\, and Can Sucuoğlu.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/echologies-data-through-design-exhibition/2026-03-24/
LOCATION:BRIC\, 647 Fulton Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217\, United States of America
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:NYC Agency Maps\, Tools\, & Geospatial Data for 2026
DESCRIPTION:New York City agencies create and publish a huge volume of geospatial data each year. They use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – computer-based tools to store\, visualize\, and analyze this geographic data. This panel will review publicly-available tools and datasets\, discuss the state of GIS technology in the city\, and consider how the City uses geospatial data to serve NYC residents.  Join this conversation with agency GIS leaders about new maps & tools\, geospatial data\, and initiatives for 2026. \nModerator\nLee Ilan\, NYC Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation \nPanelists\nJosh Friedman\, NYC Emergency Management\nMatt Croswell\, NYC Department of City Planning\nAdam Barin\, NYC Mayor’s Office of Operations
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/nyc-agency-maps-tools-geospatial-data-for-2026/
LOCATION:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/nyc-agency-maps-tools-geospatial-data-for-2026/
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SUMMARY:Your Community By the Numbers: Intro to Census Data
DESCRIPTION:Join Census Bureau data dissemination specialists Joli Golden and David Kraiker to learn how to use data.census.gov to access the most current and relevant demographic\, socioeconomic\, and housing statistics about your community. During this presentation\, you will learn about the Decennial Census\, the American Community Survey (ACS) and other Census Bureau programs\, geographies\, and datasets. Plus\, you will see live demonstrations of the search and navigation features in data.census.gov as well as how to download tables\, create charts and generate thematic maps. This training is recommended for all data users.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/your-community-by-the-numbers-intro-to-census-data/
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SUMMARY:NYC PIT Pop Up: CUNY Open Data Takeover Day Two
DESCRIPTION:As part of NYC Open Data Week 2026\, the CUNY Public Interest Technology (PIT) Lab will host a week-long Open Data Takeover of the NYC PIT Pop-Up at the Oculus / World Trade Center. The activation advances Open Data Week’s goals of accessibility\, civic learning\, and practical use of open data by bringing open data projects into a highly visible\, public-facing space. Attendees can drop in at any time during the hours below for a demonstration of the tool and to speak with the presenter. Most of the demos will also be streamed live from the Pop-Up on its Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/cunypitlab). Inside the Oculus\, the Pop-Up is located on the Main Floor C2\, in the South Concourse\, at Shop #53 (next to M.A.C. Cosmetics). View the full PIT Lab schedule. No RSVP needed\, just stop by! \n[2pm-6pm]\nNate Cooper – Space Apps Showcase\nIn this session\, learn about the NASA Space Apps Challenge\, NASA’s global data hackathon. Each year NASA posts 11 challenges to use its data in unique ways over the course of a weekend. Last year\, there were over 100k participants globally. You’ll meet participants from last year’s hackathon including winning teams\, judges\, and mentors from the NYC local site. What does it take to turn an open data set into something useful\, fun\, and engaging? Learn what happened\, what projects are still being developed\, and how to build your own solutions using NASA’s data. Following a presentation\, we’ll do a hands-on workshop so you can learn how to build your own open data app.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/nyc-pit-pop-up-cuny-open-data-takeover-day-two/
LOCATION:Oculus World Trade Center\, 185 Greenwich Street\, New York\, New York\, 10006\, United States of America
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Exploring an Independent Perspective on Emergency Response Times
DESCRIPTION:The NYC Independent Budget Office (IBO) aims to enhance understanding of New York City’s budget\, public policy\, and economy through independent\, data-driven analysis. In this event\, IBO Budget and Policy Analyst Valerie Gudino will showcase how Open Data can be used to analyze and visualize fiscal years 2014-2024 citywide ambulance response times. Valerie will walk through how emergency response and dispatch data can be leveraged to examine patterns in emergency medical response by borough and citywide. This event is ideal for anyone interested in public safety\, emergency response or data visualization. Valerie will present the report findings and conclude with a Q&A session.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/exploring-an-independent-perspective-on-emergency-response-times/
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SUMMARY:The City That Never Sleeps: Forecasting NYC’s Noise Complaints with Bayesian Models
DESCRIPTION:This presentation looks at how everyday noise in New York City changes from neighborhood to neighborhood\, across the days of the week during the summer. Using several years of NYC 311 data\, it goes beyond simply counting complaints to ask a more practical question: how confident can we be that some areas are actually noisier than others? \nData Engineer Moses McCall will introduce Bayesian modeling in an intuitive\, non-technical way\, focusing on uncertainty as something we can measure rather than ignore. Interactive maps will be used alongside the analysis to make citywide patterns easy to explore and compare. Finally\, the models will be tested against more recent data to see how well these patterns hold up over time\, comparing what the models expected with what actually happened.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/the-city-that-never-sleeps/
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SUMMARY:Walk the Data: Mapping User Experience (UX) Mobility on NYC Streets
DESCRIPTION:Join this hands-on walking workshop that turns NYC streets into a living lab! Together\, we will test a custom\, data-enabled pedestrian routing system built from publicly available layers such as sidewalks\, pedestrian ramps\, traffic volumes\, thermal comfort\, tree canopy\, and other walkability indicators. The goal is to see what these datasets capture about moving through the city and what they miss. This approach\, called UX Mobility routing\, was developed and tested in Milan and is now being applied to a selected NYC area to spark new insights on inclusive\, experience-aware mobility. \nLed by moderators from Systematica and Transform Transport\, participants will follow the predefined route in small groups and use a simple guided toolkit to document the sensory\, cognitive\, emotional\, and physical side of the walk. We will consider factors like noise\, crowding\, comfort\, clarity\, and perceived safety\, then compare lived experience with what the mapped layers suggest. The session concludes with a collective data–experience gap map and a set of takeaways on how NYC Open Data could better reflect real walkability through new layers\, combinations of data\, or proxy indicators such as using traffic patterns to estimate noise. Open to everyone\, with no technical background needed\, all mobility levels welcome\, and materials provided. \nThe meeting point for this event will be in front of 5 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/walk-the-data-mapping-user-experience-ux-mobility-on-nyc-streets/
LOCATION:Metrotech Walk\, Metrotech Walk\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201\, United States of America
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SUMMARY:Youth-Driven Map-Making with Open Data / Maps at MIXI Club
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, we present projects from Maps @ MIXI\, a mapping club about spatial justice\, open data\, and critical cartography. Throughout the year\, five NYC youth worked on four projects during the club in which they analyzed NYC Open Data and other open data sets like the US Census. The projects span a variety of topics – access to pools\, the housing crisis\, restaurant hygiene ratings\, and youth-targeting police activity. The projects are youth-driven and represent the questions youth bring to open data. \nFirst\, this will briefly introduce the Maps @ MIXI club. Then\, each youth/team will briefly discuss their project\, the motivation behind the work\, and the map they created. \nUnequal Pool Distribution Around NYC and How It Affects Overall Public Health by Zachary Kiselev\nHow can we use NYC Open Data to understand whether pool access is unevenly distributed between neighborhoods\, and how can this be used as a marker for overall public health? \nUsing NYC Open Data to Understand the Causes of New York City’s Housing Crisis by Oleksandra Borysova\nHow can NYC Open Data show why NYC has a housing crisis by looking at vacancy\, rents\, wages\, population changes\, transportation\, and Airbnb listings? \nPredicting Restaurant Hygiene Grades Across New York City by Gab Dechirico and Mariam Khan\nIn New York City\, to what extent do neighborhood socioeconomic indicators and cuisine types predict a restaurant’s likelihood of receiving an “A” hygiene grade\, after accounting for inspection frequency and violation patterns? \nPolicing and Youth: Analyzing Police Stops of Youth in New York City by Wen Chen\nHow does the racial composition of youth subjected to police stops within 700 feet of NYC public schools differ from the racial composition of youth residing in the surrounding census tracts?
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/youth-driven-map-making-with-open-data-maps-at-mixi-club/
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SUMMARY:Forging Links Between Public Scholarship\, Civic Tech\, and Open Data: A Showcase of CUNY Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2) Projects
DESCRIPTION:Public scholarship has been a core value and practice of the CUNY Graduate Center since its founding 1961\, and long part of the culture of CUNY\, the largest urban public university in the United States. Increasingly\, public scholars committed to creating and disseminating knowledge in service of the public good work with open data in their projects\, and disseminate their work in open scholarly publishing platforms\, curate and release public datasets\, and engage in digital media to share their work for public audiences. \nThis interactive panel discussion will provide an overview of how public scholarship\, scholar activism\, and open data have many existing links in projects supported by The Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2) at The Center for the Humanities at The CUNY Graduate Center. It will then showcase and reflect on several recent projects completed by graduate students at CUNY whose work focused on public scholarship\, activism\, arts-based methods\, digital equity\, and civic tech. Three of the identified presenters were 2025 Early Research Initiative/Public Scholarship Practice Space 2025 Summer Research Fellows and two presenters were Social Practice CUNY Fellows. \n– Ian G. Williams will share his research on digital literacy\, civic tech networks\, and democracy through participation in The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC) in Mechelen\, Belgium in July 2025\, experiments in creating pedagogical tools bridging open data literacy and data justice in a social work classroom while examining 311 complaints about homelessness\, and involvement with the NYC Public Interest Tech (PIT) Pop-Up this fall. Read Ian’s write-up on summer activities here. \n– Seon Britton will share his research on community technology organizations (CTOs) working to advance digital equity and inclusion in New York City through broadband internet service provision\, including fieldwork with Silicon Harlem and NYC Mesh. His work argues that CTOs are a new type of organization that can help in providing internet access to currently underserved communities. Read Seon’s write-up on summer activities here. \n– Jaclyn Reyes and Ezra Undag will share their work with The UKAI Initiative\, a transnational collaboration of artists\, cultural workers and researchers in the US and in the Philippines that aims to advance environmental and climate justice through art\, culture and community-building. The UKAI Initiative has several projects; this presentation will focus on the project\, “Transnational Clothing Pathways.” Read more about The UKAI Initiative here.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/forging-links-between-public-scholarship-civic-tech-and-open-data-a-showcase-of-cuny-public-scholarship-practice-space-ps2-projects/
LOCATION:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/forging-links-between-public-scholarship-civic-tech-and-open-data-a-showcase-of-cuny-public-scholarship-practice-space-ps2-projects/
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Maples\, Oaks\, and More: The NYC Tree Map as a Stewardship Tool
DESCRIPTION:Do you look up as you walk through our city\, curious about the trees? Join this interactive session exploring the NYC Tree Map\, a free online tool developed by NYC Parks. We’ll hear from the deputy director of Digital Media at NYC Parks\, Tom Hughes\, about how the NYC Tree Map was designed and developed. You’ll then have time to use desktop computers to explore the NYC Tree Map and become familiar with navigating its features. We’ll conclude by hearing from members of the Jackson Heights Beautification Group Tree LC Team about how they utilize this tool to organize and record their tree stewardship efforts. \nThis event will be held at the St. John’s Recreation Center (1251 Prospect Place) in Brooklyn. Register here.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/maples-oaks-and-more-the-nyc-tree-map-as-a-stewardship-tool/
LOCATION:St. John’s Recreation Center\, 1251 Prospect Pl\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11213
CATEGORIES:Class / Training
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SUMMARY:From Open Data to Data Commons: Building Civic Infrastructure for the Culture and Arts Sector
DESCRIPTION:What if the problem isn’t a lack of data\, but a lack of infrastructure to share and reuse it responsibly over time? \nWhen working with data\, we often treat collection as the end of the story—focusing on efficient ways to acquire and store it—while neglecting the data’s longer life: making it findable\, interpretable\, re-usable\, and actionable beyond its original purpose. Responsible reuse depends not just on technical infrastructure but also on shared practice. \nWith the Culture Data Commons as a starting point\, join us in conversation with Stefaan Verhulst\, co-founder of the GovLab and The Data Tank\, on responsible data reuse and the opportunities of data stewardship through collective practices and participatory governance. \nOrganized by the Culture & Arts Policy Institute and hosted by BRIC\, this session\, part of Open Data Week 2026\,  invites cultural leaders\, researchers\, technologists\, policymakers\, and funders to rethink data governance in the arts and to consider how collective data infrastructure can transform information into shared power.  \nRSVP here \nABOUT THE CULTURE DATA COMMONS\nDeveloped by the Culture & Arts Policy Institute\, the Culture Data Commons (The Commons) is a collectively stewarded shared data space for the culture and arts sector. It brings together datasets\, tools\, and governance practices to enable organizations to share\, access\, and reuse information responsibly. More than a portal\, it is a collaborative framework that centers participation\, transparency\, and collective decision-making in how culture data is stewarded and applied.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/from-open-data-to-data-commons-building-civic-infrastructure-for-the-culture-and-arts-sector/
LOCATION:BRIC\, 647 Fulton Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217\, United States of America
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SUMMARY:Tracing the City: Data Science for Social Good Student Work Exhibition & Reception
DESCRIPTION:Tracing the City features student work from The Cooper Union’s interdisciplinary course\, Data Science for Social Good\, that pairs engineering\, art\, and architecture students with New York City nonprofits to help address real-world challenges together. Through the course\, Cooper Union students help these organizations explore open datasets drawn from NYC Open Data sources\, communicate findings visually\, and propose data-informed interventions. Projects often highlight disparities in health outcomes\, environmental conditions\, educational access\, and justice-system involvement across different city neighborhoods. This year\, students are collaborating with NYC-based nonprofits—including organizations such as Bee U\, Civic Health Alliance\, and Justicia Lab\, and Housing Rights Initiative—to investigate how open data can support youth empowerment\, community health\, tenancy protections\, and corporate wage theft. \nFor Open Data Week 2026\, we are hosting a public exhibition and reception showcasing work from this year’s Data Visualization and Data Science for Social Good cohort\, alongside selected projects from previous years. The exhibition will feature a range of student work installed in The Cooper Union Civic Projects Lab; ranging from interactive installations\, posters\, visual narrative studies\, and digital prototypes— all built using NYC Open Data and nonprofit partner datasets. The event is designed to be highly participatory: student teams will be present throughout the space to walk attendees through their datasets\, demonstrate interactive components\, discuss methodologies\, and engage in open conversation about their findings and design choices. Rather than a static gallery\, the exhibition will function as an open studio environment where visitors can test interactives\, review visual drafts\, ask questions directly to student creators\, and learn how open data is used to support real-world challenges faced by NYC communities. A brief opening talk will introduce the pedagogy of the course and the role of open data in civic problem-solving\, but the emphasis will be on hands-on engagement and informal dialogue. The goal is to create an accessible and welcoming public space where open data comes alive through student-led exploration\, community insight\, and interactive design. Register here.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/tracing-the-city-data-science-for-social-good-student-work-exhibition-reception/
LOCATION:The Civic Projects Lab\, Cooper Union\, 41 Cooper Square\, New York\, New York\, 10008\, United States of America
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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